What are the themes of Documenta 13?

From: liftedDate: 24 Nov 2010Time: 18:09:41 -0600

Review

•participation and withdrawal as simultaneous modes of existence today;
•embodiment and disembodiment, and their mutual dependency;
•rootedness and homelessness, as a dual condition of subjecthood;
•proximity and distance, and their relativity;
•collapse and recovery, occurring simultaneously as well as in succession;
•the flood of uncontrolled information and the contemporaneous obsession with control and organization;
•translation and untranslatability, and their negotiation;
•inclusion and exclusion, and their connectedness;
•access and inaccessibility, and their co-existence;
•the obsolescence of a Eurocentric notion of art and the paradoxical emergence of practices related to that same notion in the world at large today;
•human life and other forms of life facing multi-species entangled histories;
•advanced science/technology and its alliance with ancient traditions;
•tangible and intangible heritage and their interconnectedness with contemporary culture;
•the specificity of being an artist and the non-specificity of artistic practice.